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# Other Resources

## FAQ

A collection of Frequently Asked Questions and their answers is maintained by Kurt Hornik. The latest version can always be found at

> http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html

## Mailing Lists

Thanks to Martin Maechler there are number of mailing lists which are used by R users and developers:

- r-announce@lists.r-project.org: announcements of new R releases or applications
- r-help@lists.r-project.org: general inquiries and discussion about R
- r-devel@lists.r-project.org: discussions about the future of R and pre-testing of new versions

To subscribe (or unsubscribe) to these mailing list send subscribe (or unsubscribe) (in the "body", not the subject !) to:

- r-announce-request@lists.r-project.org
- r-help-request@lists.r-project.org
- r-devel-request@lists.r-project.org

## Archives

The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) is a collection of sites which carry identical material, consisting of the R distribution(s), the contributed extensions, documentation for R, and binaries. The CRAN master site at TU Wien, Austria, can be found at the URLs

http://cran.r-project.org
ftp://pub/cran.r-project.org/pub/R/
rsync: cran.r-project.org::CRAN

Current mirrors include

http://cran.at.r-project.org | TU Wien, Austria
http://cran.ch.r-project.org | ETH Zürich, Switzerland
http://cran.dk.r-project.org | SunSITE, Denmark
http://cran.hu.r-project.org | Semmelweis University, Hungary
http://cran.uk.r-project.org | University of Bristol, UK
http://cran.us.r-project.org | University of Wisconsin, USA